If you want to know about how robot cars work, you can't do much better than watch this wonderful NOVA documentary called The Great Robot Race about +DARPA second Grand Challenge.

The documentary is almost 7 years old now, so I hope it isn't a spoiler when I say GO STANLEY!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/23347/nova-the-great-robot-race

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" #Automation of cars is going to happen. Computing has caused devastating change and transport is going to be its next target."
Paul Newman, robotics engineer at the University of #Oxford .

Driverless cars ready to hit our roads – tech – 02 April 2012 – New Scientist

Sceptical about autonomous cars? Too late. They're already here – and they're smarter than ever